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Dynamic characteristics and mitigations of hydrogen starvations in proton exchange membrane fuel cells during start-ups
Authors:Fei Jia  Liejin Guo  Hongtan Liu
Affiliation:1. International Research Center for Renewable Energy, State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi''an Jiaotong University, Xi''an, Shaanxi 710049, China;2. Clean Energy Research Institute, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
Abstract:Hydrogen starvation during a start-up process in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells could result in drastic local current density variations, reverse cell voltage and irreversible cell damages. In this work, variations of local current densities and temperatures are measured in situ under both potentiostatic and galvanostatic modes. Experimental results show that when the cell starts up under potentiostatic mode with hydrogen starvation, current density undershoots occur in the downstream; while under the galvanostatic mode, local current density in the downstream almost drops to zero, but the current density near the outlet remains almost constant. The phenomenon of near constant current density near the outlet leads to a novel approach to alleviate hydrogen starvations - a hydrogen reservoir is added at the anode outlet. Experimental results show that the exit hydrogen reservoir can significantly reduce the zero current region and alleviate hydrogen starvations. A non-dimensional current-density variation coefficient is proposed to measure the magnitude of local current density changes during starvations. Experimental results show that the exit hydrogen reservoir can significantly reduce the current-density variations coefficient over the entire flow channel, indicating that adding an exit reservoir is an effective approach in mitigating hydrogen starvations.
Keywords:Start-up   Proton exchange membrane fuel cell   Hydrogen starvation   Dynamic characteristic
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